It should serve as a warning to Republicans that the soldier who wrote those words was a staunch Republican when he began his service, but that is no longer the case. It is no coincidence that all but one of the Iraq veterans running for Congress - doubtless better informed than most soldiers -- are running as Democrats.
Meanwhile, Bush, busy cutting funding for education, health care, and other programs that help the less fortunate, and working mightily to throw as much "war" money at favorite war profiteers as possible before even more of the American public catches on to and rebels against the great con, is accomplishing a two-fold purpose:
1. More poor kids desperate for money or desperate to find a way to fund their future college educations, or to be ensured health care they cannot afford to pay for, will by coerced into enlisting in the military by those factors plus the outrageous bribes now being offered as enlistment bonuses.
It is almost a certainty that very few of the soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan come from families who are deliberately profiting from war.
But, to those who are getting rich from defense contractor profits -- the Bush family and Cheney and other members of current and former administrations - and to the reporters and talking heads of the main stream media, virtually all of whom avoided military service themselves, the soldiers being maimed, both physically and mentally, and those dying in Iraq to line the pockets of this administration's corporate campaign contributors and members of their own families are only "other people's kids."
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